I have used kmttg on and off for years, but am only semi-tech savvy. So please be patient with me.

What is the best preset profile for iPad conversions? I just inherited an iPad and am going in a trip soon so I started converting some movies using the iPad/iPhone 4GS VRD profile. It seems to be generating much larger files than I'm used to (2GB for a movie, old iPhone files where about 800MB) and is taking forever - about 3-4 x real time per file. And this is converting SD movies.

Will this resolution look that much better? I have a few old IPhone conversions and they look decent on the iPad, very watchable.

The last time I used kmttg for iPhone conversions my firewall software was giving me fits and I couldn't accesses the VRD profiles, so I used ff iPhone. The results were almost unwatchable, so I'm leery of ff.

FYI I received confirmation from someone involved in TiVo beta that the next software release for US Series 4 platforms indeed does indeed kill the remote control functionality because of this tightened authentication. So unless someone can crack the password for the "cdata.p12" file that entire functionality is gone from kmttg starting with next software update. It really pi**** me off as this was the most useful capability to come our way in a long time only to get yanked away. Don't really understand the motivation given the TiVo official applications are free anyway but IMO they are very limited in functionality.
May be time to figure out how to block software updates...

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This is really disappointing. I may end up switching Media Center to my primary DVR and my Elite as a backup until this happens or TiVo releases the SDK. This is assuming they actually give anyone other than a major company access.

I can't see myself going back to trying to juggle season passes on the TiVos without KMTTG. Without KMTTG's RPC functionality, Media Center becomes the easier to manage when you have as many season passes as I do.

This is really disappointing. I may end up switching Media Center to my primary DVR and my Elite as a backup until this happens or TiVo releases the SDK. This is assuming they actually give anyone other than a major company access.

I can't see myself going back to trying to juggle season passes on the TiVos without KMTTG. Without KMTTG's RPC functionality, Media Center becomes the easier to manage when you have as many season passes as I do.

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Yes it's a huge downer. I don't use kmttg for its original intent of downloading/encoding anymore. The RPC functionality revived my interest in the project however and I use it daily for managing TiVos at home and away from home. I don't care what is in next release it's going to be a huge step down in functionality for me and is killing any interest on further development with kmttg and TiVo in general. I doubt the so-called new SDK will be made available to non-commercial developers any time soon (I did sign up for it FWIW). Only hope is if someone can crack the "cdata.p12" password file that is part of the current iOS releases. I gave that a try already a few weeks back but it looks like password is a strong password which cannot be broken in any reasonable amount of time using brute force techniques. Really down on TiVo right now.

BOINC is an open source distributed computing platform. There is already a public rainbow table generator project. That might help someone who knows what they are doing with such things. Maybe TiVo used a password length that is not within reach of a desktop brute force attempt but short enough to guess with some giant rainbow tables or a private distributed network of desktops attempting the brute force.

If you set up a project to crack "cdata.p12" my CPU/GPU cycles are yours.

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pkcs12 cracking program can be found here (supports brute force and dictionary attacks):http://sourceforge.net/projects/crackpkcs12/?source=directory
cdata.p12 file I attach with this post in cdata.zip file.
I tried dictionary attacks already without success and on an 8-thread CPU tried brute force but it only got up to 7 characters after a few days of work so would probably take a very long time to crack a long and strong password.

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Does anyone know how to include the year a movie was made in the file title created by kmttg. I have four movies all named Bad Company. I would like to have kmttg put the year made in the title so I can differentiate between them. I see how to include the year I recorded it on the Tivo but not when the film was first released.

I think I saw mention somewhere that "level" should be 41 (which is really 4.1) so if it doesn't work as you have it you can try that. You can probably bump up bit rate a little I would guess but I don't know the official specs.

I think I saw mention somewhere that "level" should be 41 (which is really 4.1) so if it doesn't work as you have it you can try that. You can probably bump up bit rate a little I would guess but I don't know the official specs.

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The changes I made work, but wasn't sure if they're worth the increased file size. Stupid question: when you say bit rate, do you mean

Just for clarity's sake, there is no current indication that changes in Tivo software are going to wreck the downloading component of kmttg (or pyTivo, etc.), right? I am annoyed that they would shut off this avenue, but I don't actually use the other functionality yet.

Just for clarity's sake, there is no current indication that changes in Tivo software are going to wreck the downloading component of kmttg (or pyTivo, etc.), right? I am annoyed that they would shut off this avenue, but I don't actually use the other functionality yet.

It seems tivo info is having more episode numbers now than in the past, at least on my unit. Is there any way that for kmttg to be able to use the episode numbers in naming or show them in the Now Playing grid for the tivo?

For my tivo that runs tivowebplus, thru the web interface, it has episode numbers for most the shows, not sure how that is accomplished, but would be very helpful if kmttg could do the same or show that data easier than currently.

Just for clarity's sake, there is no current indication that changes in Tivo software are going to wreck the downloading component of kmttg (or pyTivo, etc.), right? I am annoyed that they would shut off this avenue, but I don't actually use the other functionality yet.

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Time to stock up on S2 and S3 units. Tivo wouldn't dare upgrade the SW in them.